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Kerem Sofar

Kerem Isik is an audio engineer, producer and performer, with experience working with other artists, producers and filmmakers. His background as an audio engineer as well as a composer and performer makes him suitable to work in a wide variety of environments.

Kerem is fueled by his passion of sound, pushing him to learn and work in every stage of an audio related production. Knowing that UK is the current capital of the European music and film industries, he moved from Istanbul to London to offer his services at this ever growing multi-cultural environment.

After he obtained his BA from Istanbul Bilgi University on music composition and sound engineering, and his Jazz Education Diploma from Istanbul Bahcesehir University, he moved to London to expand his studies at the University of Westminster on Music Business Management (PgCert) He then completed a Middlesex University certified course at Point Blank Music School on Music Production & Sound Engineering (CertHE with Distinction) to observe the british approach on sound engineering and cover some extra topics.

Starting his music career as a vocalist, keyboardist and a guitarist, he played in countless bands covering a wide array of genres. Before arriving in London for his studies, he contributed Gozde Oney’s LP, ‘’Iki Golge’’ as a performer and sound designer which got fully synced to the mainstream Turkish series, Kalp Atisi.

While studying his BA, he did live sound engineering in established events like Sofar and did field recording, mixing, composing and producing soundtracks for various festival short films; including Innocence (displayed at Venice Film Week, Los Angeles Cinefest and Sofia Menar Film Festival) and Stolen Memories (Displayed at Akbank Film Festival).

He continued his career in the UK, working both on film, music and corporate productions. Producing singles and EP's, working as a recordist and sound editor/designer for full feature films like Azaad (2019), Lockdown (2020), Help (2021), The Manor (2022) and countless award winning short narrative and documentaries, working as the sound supervisor/mixer for corporate clients such as Netflix, LadBible, McKinsey Digital, Nvidia, Amazon, The Sunday Times, Ernst & Young, Microsoft, Fifa, Jack Morton, The Leadership Network, Royal Opera House, Hyundai, BT, Hunterian Museum, Channel 9 (60 Minutes Australia), HIMSS & Royal Air Force.

Kerem is currently working as a freelance on the areas mentioned above, and is always interested in a challenge. Reach out to kerem@megasonic.co.uk to connect!

Equipment

Microphones:

* 1x Sennheiser MKH 8060 Shotgun Condenser
* 4x Sennheiser ew512 G4-MKE2 Lavalier
* 2x Sennheiser AVX-ME2 Lavalier
* 2x Shure SM58 Dynamic
* 2x Neumann KM 184 Cardioid Condenser
* 1x Neumann TLM 49 Cardioid Condenser
* 1x Shure 565SD Cardioid Dynamic

 

Timecode:

  * 3x Tentacle Sync with Lemo and BNC cables

 

Synths:

   * Moog Subsequent 37

   * Nord Electro 4 HP

   * Korg microKorg XL

 

Midi Controllers:

   * M-Audio Oxygen 88 Midi Keyboard

   * Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S61 MK2

   * Ableton Push

   * Traktor Kontrol S2

   * Akai LPD 8

 

Guitars:

   * Fender Stratocaster Highway One

   * Crafter Acoustic Guitar

   * Gretesch Ukulele

   * Tag Guitalele

 

Audio Interfaces:

   * Audient iD44

   * Focusrite Clarett+ 8pre 

   * Zoom F8n PRO

   * Zoom F8

   * Zoom H6

 

Monitors:

   * 2x Adam A77X

   * 1x Adam A7X

   * 4x Adam A5X

   * M-Audio SBX 10

 

Software:

   * Ableton Live

   * Pro Tools

   * iZotope RX9 Advanced

   * Propellerheads Reason

 

Plug-Ins:

   * Waves Products (+ Diamond Pack + Abbey Road Reverb Plates + Brauer Motion + CLA Pack + Grand Rhapsody Piano + J37 Tape and more)

   * Native Instruments Komplete 11 Ultimate (+ Expansions + Soniccouture Packs)

   * Output Full Bundle

   * FabFilter Full Bundle

   * Pro Sound Effects Hybrid Library

   * Splice Library

   * Various collection of samples, effects, Vst and Vsti